Local College Offers New Course For Aspiring Food Truck Operators
By Hadas Kuznits
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A new class at the Community College of Philadelphia is geared toward aspiring food truck entrepreneurs.
What's so exciting about the food truck industry?
"If you go onto the web and just look at different food trucks, there's some crazy stuff out there and that's what attracts people," says Andres Marin, curriculum coordinator for the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Program at the college.
He says no other school is offering a food truck course right now, and that it's something that's needed:
"In the near past, you know, we had that one incident with the explosion of the food truck, so it's a necessity right now to educate the next food truck -- you know, what do we need to look at? What are we looking for inspections in trucks?"
Listen to the full interview with Andres Marin in the CBS Philly podcast (trt: 11:04)...
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Safety and food truck laws were other items Marin says you will learn about.
He says the school is now offering three sections of the course:
"It slowly starts with understanding what the food truck business is in our 101 course, the 102 course discusses about licensing (and) truck designs and the 103 (course), then developing ideas for your menus or concepts."
Classes are non-credit evening sessions held once a week.
